Easter Sunday - The Crowd

Welcome

Good morning and God bless you. Welcome Missio Dei Humboldt Park, New City Fellowship and New Song to our share Easter service.

Good morning and God bless you. Welcome Missio Dei Humboldt Park, New City Fellowship and New Song.

For this sermon I will be speaking in English, however Spanish translation will be available on the screens.

For this sermon I will be speaking in english, however spanish translation will be available on the screens.

Scripture

21 Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. 22 Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, 23 pleading fervently with him. “My little daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she can live.”

New Living Translation Chapter 5

21 Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. 22 Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, 23 pleading fervently with him. “My little daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she can live.”

24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him.

24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. - (NLT)

Prayer

Christ is risen! We give thanks for the gift of Easter that runs beyond our explanations, beyond our categories of reason, even more, beyond the sinking sense of our own lives. We know about the powers of death, powers that persist among us, powers that drive us from you, and from our neighbor, and from our best selves. We know about the powers of fear and greed and anxiety, and brutality and certitude. powers before which we are helpless. And then you ... you at dawn, unquenched, you in the darkness, you on Saturday, you who breaks the world to joy. Yours is the kingdom ... not the kingdom of death, Yours is the power ... not the power of death, Yours is the glory ... not the glory of death. Yours ... You ... and we give thanks for the newness beyond our achieving. Amen.

Walter Brueggemann. Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann (Kindle Locations 912-918). Kindle Edition.

Introduction

Easter Sunday is the day that we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb on the third day after his crucifixion. Easter is a very significant date within Christianity. Jesus, the Son of God, fulfilled prophecy and through his death, has given the gift of eternal life in heaven to those who believe in his death and resurrection.

Victory of God

Accomplishment of God

Power

Distorted formation of Christian education

Colonial systems of power

To educate is to build

We build as God builds.

What if we’re building to death.

Slavery taught us how to build

build the home - school - church - person

No institution in west escapes this

Institution isn’t process that salvery formed in the world.

Educational imagination.

Plantations were also about cultivation leadership and establish a social order.

Father/master forming sons

White self sufficient masculinity

Forming masters

Not a person but a persona intellectual form

Mastery possession control

pedagogical imperialism

The world is students

The Christian is the teacher

Conditioned to the task and bound to think they are the master.

Jesus w/ the crowd

The crowd is everything. Everything and everyone.

Jesus created the condition for the crowd.

The ground for all discipleship.

This is the ground of Christian intellectual life and education for good

Formation aimed at belonging and communion is key.

Live with and listen to one another continually.

Always aiming at the crowd.

Belonging must become the hermeneutical starting point.

The work that must be done is to rethink what makes a Christian intellectual that works towards belonging and the formation of communion.

People are seen as tools for use.

Thinking. Thinking. Thinking.

Whiteness wants to feel in control.

Efficiently and mastery

Feels positive.

When questioned - chaos.

Quiet and seductive power

The work that must be done is to rethink what makes a Christian intellectual that works towards belonging and the formation of communion.

God drenched life attuned to life together

How do you who reject post colonial seek communion with one who fully embraces it.

Our savior is not a self sufficient man. No sufficient man ends up on the cross.

First step needed to take to move toward belonging

Ask itself. How have I structured myself as a learner and who do I wish to learn?

Jesus came first as a learner.

It was from that place of learning that he taught.

We have a God that doesn’t need to learn, because he knows everything. So we don’t need to learn, because we know everything. We only feel the love of God when he is teaching. Or the only place God can show love is when he is teaching.